Passengers queue at All Nippon Airways' (ANA) cancellation counter after the company cancelled flights due to the Airbus A320 recall which forced it to ground some aircrafts at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan November 29, 2025, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Kyodo/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. JAPAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN JAPAN

PARIS, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Airbus is telling airlines that emergency repairs to some of the A320 jets affected by a major recall may be less burdensome than first thought, industry sources said on Saturday.

Although some 6,000 jets remain impacted overall, a sub-set of jets needing a time-consuming hardware change rather than a quick software fix is smaller than the initial estimates of 1,000, they said.

Airbus had no immediate comment.

(Reporting by Tim Hepher; editing by Michel Rose)